(It’s possible that there are some options I didn’t try, but here I go)
I miss something fundamental with the search option here.
When i search:
The word I search for can be used several times in a big thread with a lot of answers.
It’s often like searching in a haystack finding this/these word(s) among all these replies.
It’s an endless search finding where in the thread it’s located.
Here is the sollution:
The word that I search for should automatic be bolder than all the other words used in a thread. (or something similat that have seperated it from the other word)
Here is an example on how it would have looked if the Administrators followd my advice:
Let’s say I search for the word “California”.
What you suggest would have to be taken up with the guys who coded the software, http://www.vbulletin.com What you are asking is akin to requesting your company’s tech guys to change the way Window’s on-line help works. We just bought and installed a piece of commercial software, we didn’t write it.
Getting to the ‘meat’ as it were, of your issue, perhaps the solution to your problem is to refine your search behavior.
For example, if you’re looking for a thread on cross dressing penis worshiping frog dancers, I wouldn’t start my search out with simply the word ‘penis’ (or at least I wouldn’t here), but rather ‘penis’ and ‘frog dancers’ perhaps would limit the results to less than 80% of the threads here.
Well, when I search for a word that could appear multiple times, I use the “find” feature(cntrl-F) to then locate the word in the thread when it opens. It makes things go much faster for me-I’m not sure if it will help in your circumstances.
There’s already a way to do exactly what you want, that’s a lot easier on the SD server. Just use the search function as you have been, and then use the “find” function in your browser to find the word in the thread. Under Netscape, this is Edit > Find in Page, or control-f (control-g to repeat the last find). It should be similarly easy under IE or Opera.
By the way, the word is “improved”, not “improven”, but I’m sure you already knew that.
or on my IE board click on ‘edit’ then ‘find’ and type in the word - it then will locate the usage of the specific word on the page, much like your highlighted example.
It does, I found it in a search yesterday. It will highlight them by colouring the keyword searched on. The colour can be set in one of the options in the admin control panel, the VBulletin default colour is red.
